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There was better news, however, for rookie Liam McAlinden with Wolves taking up a one-year contract option on the 21-year-old.

All eyes will now be on Thelwell as he bids to find a mixture of young players with raw talent and more established professionals to drive Wolves forward.

“We will have a measured approach,” he said. “It is very easy to recruit players to a football club in quantity and them not have an impact.

“We try here to be measured and make sure anyone we recruit will improve the starting eleven, and that is exactly what we will do again this summer.”

Teenagers Dominic Iorfa and Kortney Hause have both broken into the first team this season. And rather than be stifled by the task of sourcing the next crop of top talent, Thelwell insists he feeds off it.

He said: “There is always pressure at a football club of this size and rightly so.

“We are talking a lot at the moment about that pressure being a privilege, because we are at a club which has got the opportunity to succeed at the highest level.’’